A bit more like it.

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
...
>Interesting.  By the time I press all the buttons to get the thing to 
>look like my Mac, it is as expensive as my Mac.  I guess that could be 
>an issue ;-)

And it can't run OS X (I put up with the stupid keyboard and touchpad on
the 15in PowerBook I'm typing this on, but would really like a ThinkPad
running OS X).

FWIW, it is now possible to get/build whitebox laptops as Intel has come up
with some pretty decent specs for standardizing things in the laptop world.
There was at least one article in RAM (Reseller Advocate Magazine) on these
recently.  Unfortunately the standards only include touchpads.

Bill
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